EP2965534A1 - Commmunications network - Google Patents
Commmunications networkInfo
- Publication number
- EP2965534A1 EP2965534A1 EP14710942.5A EP14710942A EP2965534A1 EP 2965534 A1 EP2965534 A1 EP 2965534A1 EP 14710942 A EP14710942 A EP 14710942A EP 2965534 A1 EP2965534 A1 EP 2965534A1
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a communications network and in particular to a communications network using digital subscriber line (DSL) technology.
- DSL digital subscriber line
- Asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) systems enable data to be transmitted over a pair of metallic twisted pair (usually copper) wires to customer premises. It is thought that the maximum transmission performance that is likely to be obtained with modern variants of ADSL is a download data rate of 24 Mbps and an upload speed of about 3 Mbps. Such data rates are dependent on the length of the metallic twisted pair from the customer premises to the telephone exchange and thus many customers will receive services at significantly lower data rates.
- optical fibre has been installed into the access network. The greatest data rates are likely to be provided using fibre to the premises (FTTP) networks, such as passive optical networks (PONs), but there is a significant cost involved in providing fibre to customer premises.
- FTTP fibre to the premises
- PONs passive optical networks
- Fibre to the cabinet (FTTCab) networks are known to provide an attractive solution to providing customers with high data rate services without requiring as much investment as FTTP networks.
- FTTCab networks very high bit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL) systems are used to provide data rates of 40 Mbps and higher, for both upload and download on the metallic twisted pair cables. It is believed that improvements to VDSL systems may provide data rates in excess of 100 Mbps.
- VDSL digital subscriber line
- FIG. 1 shows a schematic depiction of a known FTTCab network 10 which comprises core network node 100, optical line terminal 200 and a plurality of cabinets 300, the network being used to serve a plurality of domestic (and/or commercial) premises 400.
- the core network is connected to the optical line terminal (OLT) by an optical fibre cable 150.
- Data transmitted to the OLT 200 is received by a first OLT line card 205 and is demultiplexed a plurality of second OLT linecards 210.
- Each of the cabinets has a point-to-point optical fibre connection 250 to the OLT, with each of the cabinets being connected to a dedicated one of the plurality of second OLT linecards 2 0.
- Each of the cabinets comprises a linecard 310 for receiving the optical signal from the OLT and converting it into an electrical signal.
- Each cabinet further comprises a DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Add/Drop Multiplexer) 320 which controls the downstream data traffic from the OLT such that it is routed to the appropriate copper transmission lines 350 which connect the cabinet to a plurality of customer premises 400.
- the DSLAM 320 also combines upstream data received over the copper transmission lines 350 from each of the customer premises such that it can be transmitted over the optical fibre cable 250 to the OLT.
- each of the cabinets 300 is shown as being connected to customer premises. It will be understood that an OLT is capable of supporting many more than four cabinets, and that each of the cabinets may serve a significant number of customer premises.
- FIG. 2 shows a schematic depiction of an alternative FTTCab network 10a having improved resilience. It can be seen that the network of Figure 2 differs from the network described above with respect to Figure 1 by the addition of a second OLT 200'.
- the second OLT 200' is identical to the first OLT 200 and has an optical fibre connection 150' to the core node 100.
- the plurality of second OLT linecards 210' in the second OLT are connected to each of the cabinets 300 via dedicated optical fibre connections 250'.
- Each of the cabinets has been adapted to comprise first and second linecards 310, 312, which are connected to the first OLT 200 and the second OLT 200' respectively.
- one of the OLTs will be designated as being the active OLT and the other OLT will be designated as being the standby OLT.
- all downstream data will be transmitted from the active OLT to the cabinets and upstream data will be routed from the cabinets to the active OLT.
- the data would be routed via the standby OLT until the fault is remedied.
- the first and second OLTs may be co-located but it is preferred that they are separated, for example by at least 10km, so that it is unlikely that a catastrophic event, such as a fire or earthquake, would affect both OLTs at the same time.
- both OLTs may have redundant fibre connections to a second core node (not shown).
- Such a network architecture improves the resilience of the network although it will be appreciated that a number of potential faults, for example a DSLAM failure, or the severing of the copper line connecting a cabinet to customer premises, cannot be protected against with such an architecture.
- a communications network comprising: a main primary network node connected to a plurality of secondary network nodes via a plurality of point to point optical fibre connections; and a standby primary network node connected to the plurality of secondary network nodes via a plurality of point to multi-point optical fibre connections.
- the plurality of point to multi-point optical fibre connections comprises a PON.
- the PON may comprise a primary optical splitter co-located with a PON OLT.
- the primary optical splitter may be co-located with one of the plurality of secondary network nodes.
- the PON may further comprise one or more secondary optical splitters.
- the network may be operated by transmitting data to the plurality of secondary network nodes via the main primary network node and transmitting data to one or more of the plurality of secondary network nodes via the standby primary network node in the event that a failure event is detected.
- a method of operating a communications network comprising the steps of: i) in a normal operating mode, transmitting data from the main primary network node to the plurality of secondary network nodes via the plurality of point to point optical fibre connections; and ii) if a fault condition is detected, switching to a back-up operating mode in which data is transmitted from the standby primary network node to one or more of the plurality of secondary networ ⁇ nodes via the point to multi-point optical fibre connections.
- the method comprising the furher step of: iii) following the rectification of the fault condition, reverting to the normal operating mode such that data is transmitted from the main primary network node to each of the plurality of secondary network nodes via the plurality of point to point optical fibre connections.
- Figure 1 shows a schematic depiction of a known FTTCab network
- Figure 2 shows a schematic depiction of a known resilient FTTCab network
- Figure 3 shows a schematic depiction of a resilient FTTCab network according to an aspect of the present invention
- Figure 4 shows a schematic depiction of a resilient FTTCab network according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention.
- Figure 5 shows a schematic depiction of a resilient FTTCab network according to a further embodiment of the present invention in which the primary optical splitter is co-located with one of the cabinets.
- Figure 3 shows a schematic depiction of a resilient FTTCab network 10b according to an embodiment of the present invention.
- Network 10b comprises a standby OLT 500 which is connected to the core node 100, with linecard 505 receiving the signals sent over the optical fibre link 150'.
- Multiplexer 520 converts the received signal from the core node and performs any necessary processing for data to be transmitted to the second linecards of the cabinets via a passive optical network (PON).
- PON passive optical network
- the PON linecard 510 transmits data over a primary PON fibre connection to an optical splitter 530, which has a plurality of optical outputs (typically 8, 6 or 32 optical outputs).
- Each of the cabinets comprises a point-to-point port 310 and a PON port 315.
- the point-to point port 310 comprises an optical Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) connection and the PON port 315 comprises a remote Optical Network Unit (ONU).
- the remote ONU is connected to the optical splitter output a PON fibre connection 550.
- the remote ONU may be provided as a SFP (small form-factor pluggable) transceiver such that it can physically fit into an optical GbE port.
- SFP small form-factor pluggable
- the standby PON network may comprise one or more secondary optical splitters located downstream from the optical splitter 530. These secondary optical splitters may be provided to increase the number of cabinets which can be served by the PON linecard.
- the PON linecard is preferably a GPON linecard, which enables data rates of up to 2.5 Gb/s being transmitted downstream (with up to 1.25 GB/s in the upstream) over a distance of up to 20 km with a 32-way split. It will be understood that in the event of a complete failure of the active OLT 200 then the standby PON OLT 500 will not be able to provide as much bandwidth as would normally be supplied by the active OLT over the point-to-point fibre links under normal operating conditions. However, such a catastrophic event is thought to be unlikely and it is believed that the most probable failure event will be the severing of one of the point-to-point fibre links or the malfunction of one of the point-to-point linecards in a cabinet.
- Figure 4 shows a schematic depiction of a resilient FTTCab network 10c according to an alternative embodiment of the present invention in which the optical splitter 530 is co-located with the PON line card 510 within the standby OLT. The outputs of the optical splitter 530 are then connected to the PON ports 315 via the respective PON fibre connections 550.
- FIG. 5 shows a schematic depiction of a resilient FTTCab network 10d according to a further embodiment of the present invention in which the primary optical splitter is co- located with one of the cabinets.
- the primary optical splitter is connected to the PON OLT via the optical fibre connection 550. Additionally, the primary optical splitter is further connected to one or more further cabinets (or one or more secondary optical splitters) via further fibre connections.
- Such a network may prove to be advantageous where there is no suitable location to house a primary optical splitter between the PON OLT and the cabinets and is an alternative to the networks described above with reference to Figures 4 & 5 where the primary optical splitter is co-located with the PON OLT.
- the co-location of the cabinet and the primary optical splitter may involve the direct installation of the splitter within the cabinet.
- VDSL cabinet designs tend to maximise the utilisation of available space within a cabinet and thus a co- located splitter may be installed in a footway box adjacent, or near to, to the cabinet.
- the present invention provides a hybrid fibre-copper access network in which a main OLT sends data to a plurality of DSLAMs via a plurality of point-to-point optical fibre connections.
- a standby OLT is provided which has a plurality of point-to- multi-point optical fibre connections to the plurality of DSLAMs. In the event of a failure, data can be sent to some of the DSLAMs via the standby OLT and the point-to- multi-point optical fibre connections.
- the network can revert to its normal state and transmit data to the DSLAMs via the main OLT and the plurality of point-to-point optical fibre connections. Only those DSLAMs which have their point-to-point connections affected by the failure will have their traffic re-routed via the standby OLT.
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